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9.27.2006

ian mackaye.... a great topic for documentary film or maybe a feature film

ian mackaye

ian mackaye?google ian mackaye

need a picture?google ian mackaye images yourself

I did google ian mackaye for imagescould not decide if it were to be fair to put up a picture of ian then or ian nowas both a picture of ian then or ian now are worthy of representing ian mackayefugazi or the evens are as much a contributions as the teen idles and minor threat (and embrace and egg hunt.... or whatever)so I post neither picture from neither era or any era in betweenyou choose what image of Ian MacKaye to use in your mindbut... please one without hair as he does not look as good with his bushy locks

as the release of american hardcore becomes nation wide the topic of dc hardcore and its influence of the modern day becomes a discussionlittle things like that capital of punk pop up then people go searching for moremore picturesmore storiesmore documentariesmaybe even a feature film will come to surface?

the feature film could be fact or fiction

I could see Spike Jonze doing a Being John Makavich thing with a bit of a Sliding Doors twistwhere Ian Mackaye's life takes a different turnmaybe Ian Mackaye's music does not effect as many peoplethat music does not become such a focal part of his lifewith no one listening to his ideasdoes he drift away from that set of ideasas the ideas were the ideas of a charactera character named Ian Mackaye that lived like the words in his songsbut without the songsIan Mackaye may have had no more reason to live like thator something to that effect

where would Ian MacKaye's life gone?would it have gone more conventional?the college track?college being more than just straight four years and time at the kegmaybe some of thatas college can be part time/full time/night school...would Ian MacKaye become a businessman with a family of 2.5 kids and a two car garage?more than likely notalthough there is nothing wrong with becoming the family manwell, maybe some of thatbut nothing too conventionalas Ian MacKaye is never that conventionaleven without music I think that Ian MacKaye would still be a square peg

if we had Spike Jonze on the case he could make it more interesting story than a man in a suit going to his jobmaybe Ian MacKaye's music never becomes that esscential to his beinga combination of too much work, not enough response, and not enough money caused Ian to put down the instruments and just hang outor just be and become someone differentwell... this is all a little far fetchedas this is a resourceful person who did many things to sculpt his own future out of a world where he had to carve opportunities where no opportunities had ever existed beforein any case...this other Ian character disbands from the band and music as a wholecontinues in through high school like an average kidwithout Straight Edge to sing aboutthere is no reason to live Straight Edgethere is no formation of a band, record label, a different band and so onIan MacKaye had become a person who had to live by his beliefsas he was accountablemost kids can say something, then do anotherbut it is not so easy when you are standing on a soap box screaming your lungs outbut this soap box did not exist for this ficticious Ian MacKaye who lived a different existencean existence without his music and without his effect on the world

Ian had energythat energy had to go other directionswithout punk rock and music Ian would have to devote his time ot standard thingsa standard existence may have put Ian on the wrestling team, in the weight room, and at the kegintroducing him to a different set of peopleletting those people to head down a different patha very different path without his contributiontheir individual destinies are all changedas their cumulative effort was lessened without that one vital contributionlike a winning soccer team without its power goalie or perhaps its leading scorermaybe that winning team is not a winning team any moresome players leave for other teamsthe team folds

so this other Ian MacKaye finishes high schoolgoes to college....and lives in a world where Dischord Records never evolved and DC Hardcore never fully blossomedalmost impossible to sayas the removal of that part of the puzzle changes the whole puzzle afterwards

where would Dave Grohl be right now?perhaps Dave Grohl would have grown up to play drums...but without Dave Grohl playing in SCREAM based out of Washington DCwell....assuming that Nirvana could have been born on the West coast if Ian MacKaye and all of his contributions never existed on the East Coastwould Nirvana have blossomed into what they became without the contributions of Dave Grohl?okayenough with thatthe world is filled with what ifs...and wellI am not Rod Serlingbut...my point is madethe contribution is significant

those contributions effected music and the future of music to a profound levelbut the music itself effected people and those people effect the worldthe music of Ian MacKaye and the music around him made people thinkthe music was very and still is very expressivethe passion is often carrying more than just an emotion but also a thoughtthose thoughts within the songs helped to develop the thoughts of many individualsthose individuals are all part of the world today in one way or another with that music's ideas as part of their mental and emotional development

did I mention straight edge?oh yes... I did mention straight edgenevermindwe may need to call in someone who knows what they are talking aboutthere may need to be historians called in to piece this all togetherstraighte edge... it is so part of my everday vocabulary

okaytoo much red winebest I finish this thought and head to bed

ian mackaye alone is enough material for a documentary

ian mackaye... maybe worthy enough of A&E Biography to do a documentary ofbut personallyI think that Biography should always wait till the person is dead before their air the showas the story has not ended until after they are dead

ian's name and face can be seen around all over the placeinterviewing skateboard legends or cranking out a kids song for pancake mountainstill producing music and still running dischord records (I guess still running Dischord... as it still operational and someone has to run it)

andthe fictional ian existed with an actual brother, sister etc. who are also passionate filled with ideas and creativitethis brother was also involved heavily with musicas was/is the sisterso, the chance of backing down from the passion was not so easyas that same raw energy existed at homenot just with his peer group

on the altered destiny of the world and more specifically the world of music...

REM exisited independently than the DC music scene for may yearsbut...in the later REM years it was amusing to see Michael Stipe borrow the fashion style of Ian MacKaye and the dance moves of Guy Picciotto

on the altered destiny of the world and more specifically the world of music...

REM exisited independently than the DC music scene for may yearsbut...in the later REM years it was amusing to see Michael Stipe borrow the fashion style of Ian MacKaye and the dance moves of Guy Picciotto

I am all for customizationand aero bars are part of the tri-packageI just feel that there are times when people are a bit off the brakes and too focused on their own momentum when rolling down the multiuse trail

my riding a fixed gear makes me a potential menaceas I hardly know how to stopwhich means I have no room to talk

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